Worldwide shipments for wireless power receivers and transmitters are forecast to grow to more than 2 billion units in 2023. With the technology setting itself to achieving mainstream status, driven by growing adoption in the mobile phone market, the potential of its adoption is expected to follow suit in other wide range of applications, such as laptops, tablets, wearables, medical devices, smart home, small kitchen appliances, personal care appliances, furniture and fixtures, infrastructure (public places), industrial (including IIoT), robots an drones, and also automotive sectors very quickly.

The interrelation of energy and technology is not new. However, CERAWeek seems primed to be at the nexus of these two disciplines in the future. I expect the increased presence of technology companies at future conferences, an even larger Agora, and a sharpened focus on transformational technologies like cloud services, IoT, AI, and robotics. This is true especially as cloud giants look to more fully penetrate markets beyond consumer and enterprise.

Last year’s APEC was a coming-out party for wide band gap devices (power SiC and GaN). This year, the wide band gap focus was on end-customer products that incorporate the devices, along with substantive reliability data, that is now available.

The global annual unit shipment of wireless power receivers and transmitters, across all applications, sectors and product segments, is forecast to grow from 450 million units in 2017 to more than 2.2 billion units in 2023 – rising to 7.5 billion units in 2027.

Examination of the global AC-DC and DC-DC merchant power supply market, quantifying the merchant market for AC-DC and DC-DC power supplies by application, power rating and package type.
Detailed analysis of all external AC-DC power adapters and chargers that are used to power or charge end equipment.

The US battery energy storage industry continues to build momentum, with another record year in 2018. This report summarizes the past year of project, policy, and market developments, as well as our latest outlook.

The number and size of data centers(DCs) is exploding around the world. Our always on, always connected society has driven the massive need for storage, compute and networking resources to facilitate the rapid, 24/7 delivery of information, entertainment and communications. ...

Annual unit shipments for wireless power receivers and transmitters, across all applications, sectors and product segments, are forecast to grow from 450 million units in 2017 to more than 2.2 billion units in 2023. To gauge the size of the opportunity available in the total market, cumulatively more than 6 billion receiver units and 2.7 billion transmitter units are expected to ship from 2018 to 2023.

In 2017, Cavium, Qualcomm, and Applied Micro were all sampling ARM-based SoCs targeted at data center servers. With Applied Micro spinning off its server CPU business to newly founded Ampere Computing and Qualcomm demonstrating no tangible design wins after announcing commercial availability for its Centriq SoC in November 2017, hopes for success of an ARM-based CPU ecosystem moved to Cavium, and in 2017 Cavium kept the design wins and partnership announcements coming. In January, Atos announced Cavium’s ThunderX2 will power its HPC for the EU-funded Mont Blanc project. In March, Cavium announced a partnership with Microsoft and in November revealed designs for a Cavium-powered Project Olympus OCP server. In May, Gigabyte, Ingrasys, and Inventec announced and subsequently launched new servers based on ThunderX2. In June, Penguin announced its Open Compute server lineup will feature a ThunderX2 sku. Clients, please log in to view the full content.

The 2018 Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit was held from March 20 to 21 in San Jose, California, with over 3,000 people in attendance, an audience that has tripled over the last two years. The expo hall was packed with 75 exhibitors ranging from OCP board members Facebook, Intel, and Microsoft to start-up companies like Advanced Data Cooling Technologies, Apstra, Fadu, Innovium, Liqid, Nephos, TidalScale, EdgeCore, Wiwynn, and Wave2Wave. Companies in attendance included industry leading vendors HPE, Dell, Toshiba, Arista, Marvell, Cavium, Nokia, IBM, and Huawei and telecom and cloud providers such as AT&T, Microsoft Azure, Google, and Rackspace. Clients, please log in to view the full content.